Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.